Episode 104: Real Food World Tour

Season 3! Our first step into animation. This short film tells the history and future of The Perennial Plate in self depricating cartoon fashion. It tracks the sustainable food series story from Minnesota, to the US and coming soon… around the world with new partner Intrepid Travel! Enjoy and share!

What a pleasure to learn that you’ll be taking this superb project abroad! It’s been so very instructive and often amusing.

I can’t the original article that impressed me so, a number of years ago, but you’ll find, here, a similar example of very early culinary exchange, all across the globe, reflecting both exploration and expansionism. One example: Persia –> Egypt –> North Africa –> Spain –> Mexico.

Here you’ll find something of a rough sketch of ‘gastronomic geography’, including reference to language and philosophical orientation, which have had great impact on both agriculture and cuisine.

We bite blithely into apples and peaches without the faintest idea that these fruits originated in Central Asia and China …